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This course examines China's recent “Belt and Road Initiative” in the broader context of policy efforts across the centuries to establish positive trans-continental relations among Northeast Asia, Europe, and intervening nations. It considers in detail transformational developments in energy demand, logistics, geopolitics, and global finance imparting momentum to BRI, while surveying concretely how BRI has evolved since its initiation in the fall of 2013. Attention is also given to the domestic politics of BRI in both China and host nations, as well as the global implications of this major Chinese foreign-policy initiative. The course concludes with an assessment of the global political-economic implications of the BRI initiative. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>